Designed by Tod & Billie Tsein

This project was designed for Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, India. The campus was designed to be accessed on foot. The buildings were subsequently built low to the ground, to emphasize the importance of the landscape. They wanted to showcase the beauty of the land around the building, so buildings are built at lower levels to experience the landscape. The focal point of the workstations is the lighting. There are many studies done on the importance of lighting and productivity. Especially in India where monsoons ravage the landscape, it is important to have access to quality lighting all the time. Part of the effort to increase this was the sharing of lighting between rooms. Instead of having the rooms walled off, some of the walls are replaced by glass. This allows light to be shared by multiple rooms and increase the amount of lighting in a space. The last part of the project that was considered was the temperature of the campus. Mumbai is hot year-round, so the importance of climate control is important to the design. The goal was to reduce the amount of energy needed, and because there were large amounts of windows, heat could easily enter the buildings. To solve this problem the implementation of fans in the design was important. Convection is the process of heat rising. Tod and Billie used fans to push the heat up and out of the building. Because the building is built into the ground, the floors are cool and can stay cool throughout the warmer days or weeks.